Enis Kaya

University of Groningen University of Groningen


p-adic Integration on Hyperelliptic Curves of Bad Reduction


Linfoot Number Theory Seminar


2nd June 2021, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Fry Building, Online


For curves defined over the field of p-adic numbers, there are two notions of p-adic integration: Berkovich–Coleman integrals which can be performed locally, and Vologodsky integrals with desirable number-theoretic properties. These integrals have the advantage of being insensitive to the reduction type at p, but are known to coincide with Coleman integrals in the case of good reduction. Moreover, there are practical algorithms available to compute Coleman integrals.

Berkovich–Coleman and Vologodsky integrals, however, differ in general. In this talk, we give a formula for passing between them. To do so, we use combinatorial ideas informed by tropical geometry. We also introduce algorithms for computing Berkovich–Coleman and Vologodsky integrals on hyperelliptic curves of bad reduction. By covering such a curve by basic wide open spaces, we reduce the computation of Berkovich-Coleman integrals to the known algorithms on hyperelliptic curves of good reduction. We then convert the Berkovich-Coleman integrals into Vologodsky integrals using our formula. We illustrate our algorithms with a numerical example computed in Sage.

This talk is partly based on joint work with Eric Katz.





Organisers: Holly Green, Besfort Shala

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